This chapter describes Plank's discovery of the discontinuous nature of physics derived through a study of black body radiation. Plank's constant quantifies packets of energy called quanta and describes the relationship between velocity, wavelength, frequency, and speed of light/radiation.
Zukav also discusses how these discoveries lead to Einstein's photoelectric effect and talks about the double-slit experiment used to demonstrate the duality of light as both wave and particle.
Finally, Zukav discusses how the universe may be made of conscious and therefore organic particles which communicate with each other. This is related to Bohr's proability waves, which Heisenberg describes as "a quantitive version of...'potentia' in Aristotelian philosphy."
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